Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am all for classifying pollution this way the law, as written, excludes it with this part:

  “…for the express purpose of affecting…”

  The express purpose of releasing pollution from jets is to provide thrust for transportation. The pollution is a byproduct and not part of the express purpose. An umbrella’s function of blocking the sun is an express purpose of the device.

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  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the air conditioners and filters in the cabin have an express purpose of manipulating the temperature and climate, that is their only purpose.

      I think you’ve accidentally uncovered a better example. Regular home A/Cs work by releasing hot air into the atmosphere:

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      To make the inside cool, they have to disperse hot air (which is definitely a chemical or substance) into the atmosphere. That is their express purpose.

      So by this law, A/C in Florida is banned.

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      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The “have to” is the side effect though. The “express purpose” is still to produce cool inside air.

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